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Historical Items

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Item 102467

Milking time, Kingfield, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Stanley Museum on deposit at Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Kingfield Media: Lantern slide, hand colored

Item 16273

Woman milking cow, Sanford, ca. 1905

Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative

Item 7309

Thomas Burnham deposition against Rachel Clinton, Ipswich, Massachusetts, ca. 1692

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1690 Location: Ipswich Media: Ink on paper

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Tax Records

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Item 63638

13 Milk Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Cyrus H. Farley Use: Store - Retail Glass

Item 63637

2-6 Milk Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: A.H. Bailey Confectionary Co. Use: Factory

Item 37273

61-67 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: W.L. Blake & Co. Use: Office

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Blueberries to Potatoes: Farming in Maine

Not part of the American "farm belt," Maine nonetheless has been known over the years for a few agricultural items, especially blueberries, sweet corn, potatoes, apples, chickens and dairy products.

Exhibit

Maine's Untold Vegetarian History

Vegetarianism has deep roots in Maine and this first-of-its-kind exhibition explores this untold story.

Exhibit

Nuclear Energy for Maine?

Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant in Wiscasset generated electricity from 1972 until 1996. Activists concerned about the plant's safety led three unsuccessful referendum campaigns in the 1980s to shut it down.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Presque Isle: The Star City - Dairy Farms Memories - Page 2 of 2

"Then they would multiply the amount of butter fat by the pounds of milk that could be made from that the farmers could determine how profitable they…"

Site Page

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Agricultural Statistics of the Colony, 1870 to 1880

"… fowl - uncounted 1880 horses - 164 oxen - 92 milk cows - 283 cattle, other - 282 sheep - 530 pigs - 175 chickens - 1920 cheese - 1 ton butter - 7…"

Site Page

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"The cheese shop survived more than a decade, but the business owners struggled with the process of collecting the milk, and even faced a lack of cows…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Shax and laxoox: tea with milk and Somali bread.
by Kheyro Jama

Lahooh (laxoox) is a food staple in East Africa, enjoyed for breakfast, lunch, or dinner

Story

Eating lower on the food chain
by Avery Yale Kamila

Animal agriculture's ties to climate change

Story

Bert Gagne-from star athlete to community barber
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center Voices of Biddeford project

Bert’s personal account of his lifelong non-stop approach including his 60+ years as a barber.